How uptime monitoring works, what to measure and how to set it up.
Uptime monitoring automatically checks your website from the outside and alerts you when it stops responding. This guide covers how it works, the types of checks, intervals, alerts, choosing a tool and setting it up.
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Everything you need to start monitoring a website: the different types of monitoring, the metrics that matter, how checks and alerts work, and the mistakes beginners make most often.
Uptime is the share of time your website is available to visitors. Here's how it's calculated, what the "nines" really mean in minutes of downtime, and why measuring it yourself matters.
How uptime monitoring works, what to measure and how to set it up. Each guide is written by the UptimeStats editorial team to answer one practical question, with examples you can apply to your own website and links to primary sources such as RFCs and official documentation where they help.
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